Moistening device for the treatment of the hair



Oct. 5, 1937. COLSON ET AL, 2,095,169

MOIS TENING DEVICE FOR THE TREATMENT OF THE HAIR Filed June 30, 1336 v INVENTORS LUC IEN COLSON MARCEL COLSON ATTORNEY Ola Patented Oct. 5, 1937 vmfr zu'r OFFICE MOISTENING DEVICE FOR THE TREAT- MENT OF THE HAIR Lucien (Jolson and Marcel (Jolson, Paris, France Application June 30, 1936, Serial No. 88,220 Y In France January ll, 1936 3 Claims. (01. Isa-36.2)

' Protecting cushions are normally used with the heating clamps for making up the lasting, socalled permanent hair undulations. The said cushions consist of various materials: aluminium paper, blotting pap-er, quilting or similar, some of which include the specialproduct that is at the base of the treatment. Such cushions-are intended to supply hair, under the action of heat, with the desired moisture, and chiefly to protect same against-too strong a heat. r

The said cushions have proved themselves rather expensive for use by the professional hairdressers.

Various devices are also known which appear 15 as an arch shaped member or hinged in two parts, with outlet openings or not. Such devices are designated as fixed cushions, however their purpose is only to hold the cushion upon the hair ringlet during the handling of the heaters. 20 The fastening to hold up the said fixed cushion is gotten either by the deformation of same or by' means of a structure allowing it to work like a clamp. Whatever it may be, this fastening does not remove the usual cushion. 25 The presentinvention has for its object to eliminate these aforesaid cushions which are to be replaced after each operation or so, and to substitute same for an additional device, a so-called moistening apparatus, acting as an indestructible 30 semi-digester and protecting screen against scorching. The semi-digester is independent of the heater, 'put inposition while cold together with the proper amount of liquid or solidified agent upon the hair ringlet to be treated, and" then receives the heat given off by the heater.

The semi-'digester being unalterable, the use of same is largely profitable to the professional hairdresser.

The semi-digester is characterized by a member 4 composed of a single or several parts of thin metal or other rigid shell shaped material to be arranged inside in relation to the gutters of a heating clamp. The shells of the semi-digester'are smooth and preferably provided with cells con- 45 stituting so many storing rooms for the liquid, or

pasty or solidified substance. Such cells or housings for the liquid, paste or solidified product ensure to the hair a bath of a liquid or other substance melting under the heat influence.

50 The shell ends are provided with square return making cheeks which by their contact with the heating arch improve the heat conductibility and obturate relativelythe space between the arch of the heater and the semi-digester.

55 The semi-digester is also characterized, in the case of two shells, by the special hinging ofsame at each end, so as to ensure their locking over the hair ringlet to be treated.

In the drawing: Fig. 1 shows separately one of the elements constituting a part of the metallic semi-digester. Fig. 2 is a View of the complete semi-digester.

. Fig. 3 is a partialtransversal section of a heater provided with the semi-digester for the treatment of the hair from the tip.

The semi-digester or clamping device is made up of either a single piece by a vault, Fig. 4, or two curved metal parts I and 2 connected into a vault by a hinging arranged at the-ends. The vault of the semi-digester has a radius. smaller than that of the heater vault, in order to come placed in a 7 parallel position within the heater.

The links are formed by the pivots 3 on which turns one of the shells. The pivots are mounted on the blades 4 fixed to the end cheeks 4' of the other shell and suitably shaped according to the vault. A projection 3 at the end of each blade 4 is provided for entering the relative hole in the end of the free shell so as to make the semidigester steady. on the hair ringlet to be treated.

The semi-digester in a single or two hinged parts can be smooth inside and provided with a spongy lining of felt, asbestos or other suitable material for retaining the liquid, or better with cells adapted to enclose a certain quantity of liquid, paste orsolidified substance useful for the treatment of the hair. Suchcells will be made by stamping out, boring, and more or less deep, and leaving the outer surface smooth or not.

By filling the cells with liquid, oil, paste or solidified substance, placing then the clamping device upon the hair and the heater over the semidigester, there will be on the hair, a priming of vapour, oil or other product securing the'moisture of the hair during the operation. 40

Instead of metal, the semi-digester may also consist of a porous material (the outer surface of which being eventually made watertight) so as to store a certain quantity of liquid, paste or solidified substance to be applied to the hair kept up, and the boiling of the product, liquid, paste or solidified substance, contained in the cells comes in addition to the boiling of the liquid or other substance with which the hair itself is impregnated before the operation. Therefore the heating is maintained as long as wished, without any fear for scorches or burning the short hairs.

A surprising result is obtained where the metallic semi-digester according to the invention or its alternatives are combined with the milled shoulders of the curling stick upon which is wound up the hair ringlet. In fact, when the metal semidigester is arranged on the milled shoulders generally used for rolling up the hair ringlet, the ends of the semi-digester are obturated in a certain measure, and thus is obtained a partially closed room preserving the vapour resulting from the heating of the product disposed upon the hair and in the cells.

For the rational treatment of the hairs wound up in fine, middle-sized or large rings, it will be sufiicient to dispose of semi-digesters of distinct sizes and provided with cells of variable capacity.

The product in the said cells may be, for instance, introduced by a cotton slip or pad which is drawn along upon or pressed into the semidigester. The operation is driven in the same way for oil, and for the solidified oil a stick covered therewith is brought over the cells so as to fill the same. The paste is applied by means of a spatula. Instead of the cells being formed in the very metal of the semi-digester, it is possible to dispose in the smooth inside or against the walls a wire gauze or perforated plates, the meshes or holes of which would be similar to cells, such gauzes and plates thus becoming elements interchangeable at will in relation to a single semidigester acting as a support.

Having now described the object of this invention and in which manner same is to be performed, What we claim is:

1. In a moistening device for making up the so-called permanent hair undulations, the combination of a metal vault to be placed within a heater to surround a wound up hair ringlet, the said vault consisting of two hinged shells, cheeks at the ends of same to obturate the space between the heater and the vault, cells Within the vault shells to store a product for the treatment of the hair and means at the two ends of the vault shells to lock same together on the ringlet to be treated.

2. In a moistening device, the combination of two hinged shells, elbowed cheeks at their ends, cells on their inner face to contain particles of a solidified smelting and vaporizing product to impregnate the hair ringlet when the moistening device warms by contact with the heater.

3. In a moistening device, the combination of two shells with cheeks at their ends, a plate fixed at each end on the checks of one of the said shells, on the said plate a link for the other shell, and a locking means between the plate and this last shell to make same steady during the treatment.

LUCIEN COLSON. MARCEL COLSON. 

